Fantasy Versus Reality {Recipe: Peaches & Cream Frozen Cocktail}

I nudged my husband. “Let’s get out of town… go someplace for the day.”

It’d be a happy day, full of picture taking, shopping for props at antique stores, prancing through fields while notes from The Sound of Music filled the air.

We all pile in the car… 45 minutes later than we had planned because that’s how it goes when you have four kids and try to get out the door. But all is good. We’re going to have a happy day… a whimsical, carefree, spontaneous road trip kind of day.

5 minutes into our trip, Leah is screaming because her seat belt is too tight. Ella and Jacob are fighting over space. Kelly is giving us a play by play of every ones wrong doings. I try to tune it all out. We are going to have fun, dammit!

20 minutes into our road trip, things have only gotten worse. The kids are in full sibling rivalry mode… every thing they do is annoying the other one. “Ella, stop breathing so loud!” “Jacob, stop kicking my seat!” Blah, blah, blah…

25 minutes into our road trip, the car comes to a halt. “Do we really want to do this?” my husband looks at me and asks. No… no we don’t.

We turn around and head home, much to the dismay of the wailing kids in the back. They come into the house and are sent straight to their rooms. If we aren’t road tripping, they are going to clean.

I make a beeline to my new blender and decide the reality of my fantasy at least deserves a cocktail.

So, no road trip with the family… but a delicious, creamy, peachy cocktail creation instead. Fantasy versus reality… and suddenly it’s not all that bad.

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Sorry that your trip didn’t work out, Kristen. We had a nearly identical trip yesterday, where the car got turned around and headed back home. It can be so frustrating, but at least you have a positive attitude about it! That cocktail would have made me happier yesterday!

Ah…such memories. I recall waking almost every Saturday morning with some idyllic notion when my kids were young and they managed to put the brakes on that pretty quickly with the first, ‘MOM…she’s got my ‘something.’ It’s probably good I didn’t segue to a cocktail at 9am but at then end of the day this would most definitely be called for.

I had that itch to go somewhere this weekend earlier in the week. The next day, I think we realized that traveling 5 hours in a car with a 1 month old was really a bad idea, because that 5 hours would have turned into at least 8 with stopping to feed the baby! I’m glad we faced reality…
Haven’t had to deal with the sibling rivalry issue yet. Sorry your trip didn’t work out!

“I’ll turn this car around!” Good for you for showing them that they ruin their own day by ruining yours. Like someone else said, maybe next time they’ll remember this and make more of an effort to be cool. At least the drink looks good, hey?

OK, I love this post. This is pretty much the story of every vacation we have ever decided to take. The “you’re breathing too loud”…omg, I thought my children were the only ones sensitive to breathing.
I need a cocktail and it’s only 8:00 in the morning!

Seriously – what’s up with the breathing issues and kids. I never knew they were so sensitive to the sound of breathing. Apparently it’s something we need to take very seriously… this whole breathing loud thing.

Everytime I think about antiquing with the kids or sometimes even something as simple as the Farmers Market, I’m reminded that there are not many places that are sane to take 4 kids to 🙂 Maybe 1 or 2, but it is never a sane idea to go out in public with 4. lol

I commend you and your husband for sticking together and going back home. Sticking to what you say shows the kids you do not approve of their behavior and their behavior has consquences. Our girls are grown but some of the hardest times when we took activities away from them and sticking to it. It caused us more grief and inconvence than it did them. Stay strong and it will pay off. Love the drink!!!

Oh, Kristen, hugs to you. I have those moments too – fantasy: happy family on a carefree joyous day; reality: bickering siblings and Matt and I raw with rattled nerves. I like your ending way better than mine though!

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